Cold air clothes drier



April 26, 1932. REED ET AL I 1,855,312

COLD AIR CLOTHES DRIER Filed Dec. 15, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 c u- I 15llllll -Ill|ll|1 2g Harry Reed.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY April 26, 1932. REED ET L 1,855,312

COLD AIR CLOTHES DRIER Filed Dec. 15, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Harry/ZBead, L flalll'rgy,

INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 26, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEHARRY M. REED AND LINK H. SALLING, OF CHATTA'NOOGA, TENNESSEE coLn AIRCLOTHES DRIER Application filed December 15, 1930. Serial No. 502,603.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in dryingapparatus for clothing and the like.

Another of the objects of the invention consists of an apparatus of thischaracter embodying a driven rotary support.

Another object of the invention contemplates the provision andarrangement of garment supports mounted upon the rotary support forsimultaneous movement therewith during the clothes drying operation.

A further object of the invention embodies centrifugally operableexpanding means for the garment supports whereby the garments will beheld against shrinking during the drying operation.

More specifically stated the garment sup ports are provided with sleeveengaging means.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further consistsof the following novel features and details of construction, to behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the present inventionshowing the operating mechanism partly in section.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the invention.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view taken on line 14= of Figure 1through one of the several connections for the expansibly con nectedsections.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary detail sectional view taken on line 55 ofFigure 2 through the rotary support and illustrative of the connectionof a garment support therewith.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of referencedenote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicatesgenerally a base, to the upper side of which is suitably anchored amotor 11 having a spur gear 12 upon the extremity of the armaturetherefor for meshing engagement with an outside gear 13 in the mannershown in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings. A standard 14 also supportedupon the base 10 terminates to provide a horizontally disposed bearingsleeve 15 upon its uppermost end to journally accommodate a shaft member16; the latter having fixed thereto the outside gear 13. A cone member17 carried upon the opposite end of the shaft 16 has the inclined wallthereof frictionally engaged with the frusto-conically shaped face 18 ofa disk member 19. A. hearing member 19, carried by and upstanding fromthe base 10 in the manner shown in Figure 1 of the drawings, is providedwith a vertically disposed socket opening 21 for the accommodation of ashaft member 22 supporting the disk 19 at its upper end. A ball hearing23 is located within the bottom of the socket opening 21 and againstwhich the immediate extremity of the shaft 22 reposes.

The rotary support, alluded to in the foregoing, consists of a diskmember 24 having a successionof spaced radially disposed ears 25 formedupon the outer periphery thereof and vertically apertured, as at 26, toaccommodate the attaching ends 27 of the garment supports. Set screws orother fastenings, suchv as indicated at 28, are employed as the meansfor lockingly retaining the garment supports against displacement and assuggested in Figures 2 and 5 of the drawings the pockets formed betweenthe opposed faces of the adjacent ears have the heads or wrench engagingends of the set screws projected therein to prevent their entanglingwith the garments.

The garment supports comprise arm members 29 and 30 respectivelydisposed in spaced parallel relation throughout the major portions oftheir lengths and which terminate to provide at their uppermost ends inoppositely curved extremities 31 which in combination conform morenearly to the shoulder structure of garments. Toggle links 32 pivotallyassociated, as at 33, at their points of intersection are pivotallysecured at their lowermost ends with. the immediate extremities of thearm members 29 and 30. The uppermost ends of the toggle links disposedfor overlapping relation with the arm members 29 and 30, carryfas'tenings 3 1 slidably positioned within slots in the arms tofacilitate widening and narrowing the garment supports. Standards 86,carried by and upstanding from the arms 29 in spaced parallel relation,are designed to pass through the sleeve openings in the garments mountedupon the several garment supports.

From the foregoing, it is understood that the motor 11 upon beingenergized will rotate the shaft 16 through the gearing connections 12and 13 whereby the cone member 17 frictionally engaging thefrusto-conical face 18 of the disk 19 will impart rotary motion to thesupport 14 in a horizontal plane. The garment supports are readilydisposed upon the rotary support in the manner suggested in Figure 2 ofthe drawings and will expand and retract, through the toggle links 36,pursuant to the velocity of centrifugal force attained wherebv thegarments will be prevented from shrinking during the drying operation.

The general trend heretofore in the dry cleaning industry was thatdresses washed in gasoline could only be dried in steam heated dryingtumblers or in steam heated drying rooms either of which methods hascaused ruination of hundreds of garments by shrinking and tearing beyondrepair. Our method completely separates each garment from the otherduring the drying operation to obviate the usual abrasive effect frequently resulting in rendering portion-s of the garments threadbare. Thegarments will not only be prevented from shrinking during the moregentle form of drying process but the obnoxious fumes of the cleaningsolutions will be fanned out. It is obviously apparent that the velocityof the rotary support may be regulated pursuant to the nature andquantity of the garment material to be dried, for instance woolenmaterial will shrink more than silks and the support would be rotatedfaster in the case of woolen material inasmuch as greater centrifugalforce would be required to hold the woolen garments against shrinkage.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportionsand minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved tomake such changes as properly fall within thes cope of the appendedclaims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A clothes dryingapparatus comprising '5; a rotary support, garment supports havingattaching portions carried by the support, sleeve engaging portionsarranged upon the garment supports obviating entaglement of the severalgarments during the drying oporation, and toggle links carried by thegarment supports controlled by centrifugal force to obviate shrinking ofthe garments.

2. A. clothes drying apparatus comprising a rotary support, garmentsupports having inner and outer sections, the innermost of the sectionshaving engagement with the support, toggle links pivotally connected atpoints spaced from the ends thereof and having pivotal and slidingconnection terminally thereof with the respective sections, and garmentsleeve engaging portions carried by each of the sections.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures.

HARRY M. REED. LINK I-I. SALLING.

